From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Title: Screen package
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.456
Posted: Wed Dec 22 00:15:25 1982
Received: Thu Dec 23 21:04:38 1982

>From STEW@MIT-MC  Wed Dec 22 00:14:06 1982
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Meant to add this to my previous msg:

The reason that SCRFT is not used by EDT is probably that the screen
support is incomplete -- there is no SCR$INSERT_LINE or SCR$DELETE_CHAR,
for instance.  Maybe DEC could be induced to add some additional functions
to provide the kind of screen support typically needed by a screen editor.

Other DEC utilities do use SCRFT, however.  For instance, using the
version of SCRFT that I described in my previous msg, one can run MONITOR
and PHONE and SHOW PROCESS/CONTINUOUS on an Adm3a or whatever.

Has anyone thought of writing a SCRFT that just just calls the unix
termcap driver somehow?  Does this sound possible?  I don't know
enough about how termcap is used.

Stew